Firefox update killed Firefox

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mgolden · #1 Post by **mgolden** » Thu 20 Feb 2020, 13:19

This mornings update to Firefox killed it on my machine. YMMV

This is a Frugal install on a 32 gig USB stick.
Hardware is an ancient Acer Aspire 5570Z with the 2 gig memory limit.
Previous working version of Firefox was 72 something.

▶—— Distro Specifications ——◀

Distro: Slacko Puppy 6.3.0
Window Manager: JWM v2.3.2
Desktop Start: xwin jwm

Development:
Bash: 4.2.53
Geany: 1.25
Gtkdialog: 0.8.4
Perl: 5.18.1
Python: 2.7.5
Java: 1.7.0_25
--
busybox: 1.23.1
dhcpcd: 6.0.5
GCC: 4.8.2
GlibC: 2.17
OpenSSL: 1.0.1u 22 Sep 2016, built on: Thu Sep 22 12:54:20 2016
wpa_supplicant: 2.4

The Firefox crash report is as follows:

AdapterDeviceID: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2
AdapterDriverVendor: mesa/i915
AdapterDriverVersion: 9.1.7.0
AdapterVendorID: Intel Open Source Technology Center
Add-ons: uBlock0%40raymondhill.net:1.24.4,default-bookmark-folder%40gustiaux.com:2.12.0,%7B20dd52e5-90c0-4a51-8b31-e70419c5b126%7D:0.1.7,formautofill%40mozilla.org:1.0,screenshots%40mozilla.org:39.0.0,webcompat%40mozilla.org:6.4.0,doh-rollout%40mozilla.org:1.3.0,default-theme%40mozilla.org:1.0,amazondotcom%40search.mozilla.org:1.1,bing%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,ebay%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,
google%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,twitter%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,wikipedia%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,ddg%40search.mozilla.org:1.0
BuildID: 20200217142647
ContentSandboxCapabilities: 103
ContentSandboxCapable: 1
ContentSandboxLevel: 4
CrashTime: 1582206451
DOMIPCEnabled: 1
FramePoisonBase: 0000004041121792
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1582202384
IsWayland: 0
IsWaylandDRM: 0
Notes: FP(D00-L1000-W00000000-T000) WR? WR- OMTP? OMTP+1
ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SafeMode: 0
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 124
StartupCrash: 0
StartupTime: 1582206449
TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}","applicationName":"Firefox","architecture":"x86","buildId":"20200217142647","version":"73.0.1","vendor":"Mozilla",
"displayVersion":"73.0.1","platformVersion":"73.0.1","xpcomAbi":"x86-gcc3","updaterAvailable":true},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":2011,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3"]},"os":{"name":"Linux","version":"3.14.55","locale":"en-US"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"ContentBackend":"Skia","Headless":false,"adapters":[{"description":"Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2","vendorID":"Intel Open Source Technology Center","deviceID":"Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2","subsysID":null,"RAM":0,"driver":null,"driverVendor":"mesa/i915","driverVersion":"9.1.7.0","driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}],"monitors":[{"screenWidth":1280,"screenHeight":800}],"features":{"compositor":"none","gpuProcess":{"status":"unavailable"},"wrQualified":{"status":"blacklisted"},"webrender":{"status":"opt-in"}}},"appleModelId":null},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":true,"e10sMultiProcesses":8,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-US","intl":{},"update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true},"userPrefs":{"browser.cache.disk.capacity":153600,"browser.formfill.enable":false,"browser.search.region":"US","browser.search.widget.inNavBar":false,
"browser.startup.homepage":"<user-set>","places.history.enabled":false},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":4},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":null},"profile":{}}
ThreadIdNameMapping: 32100:"Gecko_IOThread",32101:"Timer",32102:"Netlink Monitor",32103:"Socket Thread",32106:"JS Helper",32105:"JS Watchdog",32107:"JS Helper",32109:"StreamTrans #1",32110:"Cache2 I/O",32111:"Cookie",32116:"GMPThread",32117:"Worker Launcher",32118:"SoftwareVsyncThread",32119:"Compositor",32120:"ImgDecoder #1",32121:"ImageIO",32122:"ImageBridgeChild",32123:"IPDL Background",32124:"DOM Worker",32125:"StreamTrans #2",32126:"StreamTrans #3",32127:"QuotaManager IO",32128:"IndexedDB #1",32129:"StreamTrans #4",32130:"StreamTrans #5",32131:"Breakpad Server",32140:"FS Broker 32138",32141:"ProcessHangMon",
Throttleable: 1
UptimeTS: 1.928498
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 73.0.1
useragent_locale: en-US

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

#2 Post by **Flash** » Thu 20 Feb 2020, 15:20

What do you mean by "killed" it? What exactly happened? Would Firefox not start after the update? Did it crash after the update?

8Geee · #3 Post by **8Geee** » Thu 20 Feb 2020, 15:38

I'm going to guess its the skia backend. Older puppy OS's generally use cairo. Also I note that glibC is 2.17... it could be that FF73 needs a newer version. 2.19 may not be enough... may have to go up to 2.25.

Regards
8Geee

mikeslr · #4 Post by **mikeslr** » Thu 20 Feb 2020, 16:23

One great thing about 'portables' and SFSes: you don't over-write the older version when testing to make sure a newer version will function.

mgolden · #5 Post by **mgolden** » Thu 20 Feb 2020, 20:16

mikeslr wrote:One great thing about 'portables' and SFSes: you don't over-write the older version when testing to make sure a newer version will function.

Oh, I have multiple versions of FF on this machine. I'm using 52.7.0 at the moment.

mgolden · #6 Post by **mgolden** » Thu 20 Feb 2020, 20:21

8Geee wrote:I'm going to guess its the skia backend. Older puppy OS's generally use cairo. Also I note that glibC is 2.17... it could be that FF73 needs a newer version. 2.19 may not be enough... may have to go up to 2.25.

Regards
8Geee

FWIW 2.17 is the latest I see in the Puppy Package Manager.

mgolden · #7 Post by **mgolden** » Thu 20 Feb 2020, 20:33

Flash wrote:What do you mean by "killed" it? What exactly happened? Would Firefox not start after the update? Did it crash after the update?

We currently have 3 threads on this board regarding the problem with FF 73.

I'm not sure whether we should continue this discussion here or move to one of the others.

mgolden · #8 Post by **mgolden** » Thu 20 Feb 2020, 23:29

For the record, I'm on my desktop at the moment.

▶—— Distro Specifications ——◀

Distro: xenialpup64 7.5
Window Manager: JWM v2.3.7
Desktop Start: xwin jwm

Development:
Bash: 4.3.42
Geany: 1.27
Gtkdialog: 0.8.4
Perl: 5.22.1
Python: 2.7.12
Yad: 0.27.0
--
busybox: 1.23.1
dhcpcd: 6.6.2
Glibc: 2.23
OpenSSL: 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016, built on: reproducible build, date unspecified
wpa_supplicant: 2.4

Firefox 73.0.1 (64-bit) is working fine.

#9 Post by **Flash** » Fri 21 Feb 2020, 02:16

mgolden wrote:
Flash wrote:What do you mean by "killed" it? What exactly happened? Would Firefox not start after the update? Did it crash after the update?
We currently have 3 threads on this board regarding the problem with FF 73.

Who's "we?" Have you started other threads about this problem?

mgolden · #10 Post by **mgolden** » Fri 21 Feb 2020, 02:33

Flash wrote:
mgolden wrote:
Flash wrote:What do you mean by "killed" it? What exactly happened? Would Firefox not start after the update? Did it crash after the update?
We currently have 3 threads on this board regarding the problem with FF 73.
Who's "we?" Have you started other threads about this problem?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=118132

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=118128

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=118084

#11 Post by **Flash** » Fri 21 Feb 2020, 17:34

Thank you. I moved those threads to this section of the forum so they'd all be together and because this is where they seem to belong, at least for now.

mgolden · #12 Post by **mgolden** » Sat 22 Feb 2020, 03:48

I found the following on the Mozilla site:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/7 ... uirements/

GNU/Linux
Software Requirements

Please note that GNU/Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.

Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:
GTK+ 3.4 or higher
GLib 2.22 or higher
Pango 1.22 or higher
X.Org 1.0 or higher (1.7 or higher is recommended)
libstdc++ 4.6.1 or higher
For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:
NetworkManager 0.7 or higher
DBus 1.0 or higher
GNOME 2.16 or higher
PulseAudio

watchdog · #13 Post by **watchdog** » Sat 22 Feb 2020, 09:37

I have tested in a live session of slacko 6.3.2 and 5.7.1 the following sfs of firefox 73.0.1 running in a chroot jail from bionic light. Profile is in /cnt/usr/local/firefox/profile where you can copy current profile already used. The sfs is gzip compressed and about 250 Mb. I do not know how it can perform on old hardware. It shows in Internet Menu as Firefoxchroot. To close the chroot jail open a console and type:

Code: Select all

closechroot

Maybe the first attempt is in error. Restart x and close the chroot again. Use at your own risk with the obvious precautions.

ff-73.0.1-bblight-chroot.sfs:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_5Ne2u ... sp=sharing

jrb · #14 Post by **jrb** » Wed 26 Feb 2020, 14:37

mgolden wrote:This mornings update to Firefox killed it on my machine.

See my post Here about this problem.

mgolden · #15 Post by **mgolden** » Fri 28 Feb 2020, 01:30

jrb wrote:
mgolden wrote:This mornings update to Firefox killed it on my machine.
See my post Here about this problem.

I suppose it's time to install a newer version of puppy on a memory stick.

The nice thing about puppy is it requires FAR less maintenance than Windoze.

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